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eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:50:12 +0000 (02:50 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:57 +0000 (11:50 -0700)
commit8bcc8c0511d5e73fd3ea614bc8768382923673e1
tree804377351ffa94624a6c570b92e4ecbf53491596
parent933bba608975914e6a2733c3780672835a779707
eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory

commit 7fcba054373d5dfc43d26e243a5c9b92069972ee upstream
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:46:39 -0700
Subject: eCryptfs: use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory

With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
when testing eCryptfs.  The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs was
doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that as a nice
page-aligned chunk of memory.  But at least with SLUB debugging on, this
is not always true, and the page we get from virt_to_page does not
necessarily match the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE worth of memory we got from kmalloc.

My simple testcase was 2 loops doing "rm -f fileX; cp /tmp/fileX ." for 2
different multi-megabyte files.  With this change I no longer see the
corruption.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c